Sub menu

Tag Archive for Irvine City Council

There’s no doubt that Irvine Council member Christina Shea is a conservative Republican. Yet she has shown an independent streak of late that has us wondering is she really being independent or is it a matter of a broken clock being right twice a day?

Many of us are still very surprised by Irvine Republican Council member Christina Shea’s decision to break with the Republican majority to cast the deciding vote last Tuesday to restore draconian cuts proposed to the Irvine Barclay Theater, OC Legal Aid Services, the Orange County Human Relations Commission and the Discovery Science Center in Santa…

With pressure from the community and revenue projections that seem to be too conservative for what is actually anticipated, the Irvine City Council voted 3-1 to preserve funding for the Irvine Barclay Theater, the Orange County Human Relations Commission, the OC Legal Aid Services and the Discovery Science Center with Republican Council member Christina Shea…

The Republican Majority of the Irvine City Council is considering gutting a jewel in the City’s cultural landscape by lopping off $500,000 in support for the Irvine Barclay Theater in the proposed new city budget for 2013-2014. The new austerity measures make little sense as the city has more than adequate reserves through the efforts…

Social media tools like Facebook and Linked In are fantastic for networking and they are telling in making suggestions about who else out you might want to connect with. My LinkedIn account suggested I connect with a David Cordero, so I looked up his profile and noticed last month, he was hired as Chief of…

The Voice of OC ran an updated story on the City of Irvine’s new interim lawyer, Richard Jones, from the Fullerton firm Jones & Mayer. It’s not the most flattering photo, and it was taken after the vote to name the City of Costa Mesa’s firm to the same position in Irvine at last Tuesday’s…

An Update: The Voice of OC has this story on the firing of Irvine’s city attorney and the political retribution tour continues. So who will the council majority give a no-bid contract to for serving as Interim city attorney? The Irvine City Council held a special closed session meeting yesterday afternoon with very short notice from…